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Notes 6 agents introduced the ability to run a client agent in a background thread.
When we use background agents, we have gotten into the habit of putting up a message box at the start of the agent and at the end of the agent, simply for "usability".
We found that at least until users get used to background agents, they tend to start something off, then see that their Notes client is available, then think "Hmm, where's the results?".